Hello, I’ve been reading your books for some years now and I’d just like to thank you for the pleasure they have given me during that time. Your story telling skills have left me breathless with the battle scenes from Sharpe. Specially so, as they are interwoven with true events. I recently came across a decent copy of Wellington: The Years of the Sword, which you have recommended before and it is, indeed excellent. Amongst my favourites are Sharpes Battle and the intense fighting in the spanish village in it and the second of the Arthur trilogy, Enemy of God and I’m now waiting in anticipation for Lords of the North to come out. I wish you good health and continued inspiration and success in the future and thanks for the journey so far. Alan Rowley